Re: Robocalls From Cape Town number: 021 201 6477

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Somehow there are overseas call centres that manage to make voip calls that
have a local callerid.  Had a few of those recently, some of the infamous
indian accent support call from "microsoft, about your computer".

Doesn't the ISPA have a log where these numbers can be logged and possibly
traced?

*Roland*

On 25 August 2017 at 08:52, ox <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> About Robocalls: Does the Electronic Communications Act cover robocalls?
>
> ianal, but as robocalls are made electronically and not by people, it
> could be argued that it does?
>
> then, many consumers are under the impression that it is "okay" or
> "normal" to buy databases
> of either email addresses or phone numbers...
>
> Apparently one of SA top Universities ran some marketing diploma or course
> where
> the course material "informed" learners that it is perfectly acceptable to
> purchase
> email databases and perfectly acceptable to subscribe these email
> addresses to
> a mailing list - as long as there is an un-subscribe link...
>
> The course material then changed to say that it is perfectly fine to send
> a single marketing email
> and then the course material changed to say that people have to buy
> email data from "reputable" vendors such as credit agencies.
>
> The problem that I have is what is this University (and potentially
> others) doing about all the
> students dumped on society that were taught complete rubbish?
>
> It is truly amazing which respected South African companies buy stolen
> databases.
>
> What is not surprising is that corporate spam is resilient and that
> once a bank or life insurance or other "large" corporation have wrong
> information (wrong email address etc) how hard it is to get off the
> @noreply lists.
>
> South African ESP's relay a ton of @noreply rubbish.
>
>
> Andre
>
>
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   Somehow there are overseas call centres that manage to make voip calls
   that have a local callerid.A  Had a few of those recently, some of the
   infamous indian accent support call from "microsoft, about your
   computer".
   Doesn't the ISPA have a log where these numbers can be logged and
   possibly traced?
   Roland
   On 25 August 2017 at 08:52, ox <[1][email protected]> wrote:

     Hi All,
     About Robocalls: Does the Electronic Communications Act cover
     robocalls?
     ianal, but as robocalls are made electronically and not by people,
     it could be argued that it does?
     then, many consumers are under the impression that it is "okay" or
     "normal" to buy databases
     of either email addresses or phone numbers...
     Apparently one of SA top Universities ran some marketing diploma or
     course where
     the course material "informed" learners that it is perfectly
     acceptable to purchase
     email databases and perfectly acceptable to subscribe these email
     addresses to
     a mailing list - as long as there is an un-subscribe link...
     The course material then changed to say that it is perfectly fine to
     send a single marketing email
     and then the course material changed to say that people have to buy
     email data from "reputable" vendors such as credit agencies.
     The problem that I have is what is this University (and potentially
     others) doing about all the
     students dumped on society that were taught complete rubbish?
     It is truly amazing which respected South African companies buy
     stolen databases.
     What is not surprising is that corporate spam is resilient and that
     once a bank or life insurance or other "large" corporation have
     wrong
     information (wrong email address etc) how hard it is to get off the
     @noreply lists.
     South African ESP's relay a ton of @noreply rubbish.
     Andre
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